Kilotest: Diagnoses of contrast poor violation by HTML element 365 on International Consortium of Investigative Journalists page

Here is how tools diagnose the contrast poor issue for HTML element 365 of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists page.

Basics

• About the contrast poor issue
  • Why it matters: Content is difficult to understand
  • Priority: highest
  • Related WCAG standard: 1.4.3
• About the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists page
  • URL: https://www.icij.org/
  • Tested on 2026-04-03 at 03:59
• About HTML element 365
  • Tag name: H5
  • Text: IMPACT
  • Start tag: <h5 class="post-kicker">
  • XPath: [not obtained]
  • Bounding box: x = 1171, y = 632, width = 395, height = 14

Diagnoses

1. Elements must meet minimum color contrast ratio thresholds; Element has insufficient color contrast of 3.99 (foreground color: #ff0000, background color: #ffffff, font size: 9.0pt (12px), font weight: normal). Expected contrast ratio of 4.5:1

   Tool: Axe (Deque)

   Rule: color-contrast

2. Text contrast of 4.00 with its background is less than the WCAG AA minimum requirements for text of size 12px and weight of 400

   Tool: Accessibility Checker (IBM)

   Rule: text_contrast_sufficient